Paras Gajurel

Paras Gajurel (11 January 1957-27 September 1997) was a Nepalese businessman who owned several farms and agricultural firms. He was killed by the Communist Party of Nepal in 1997 during the Nepalese Civil War.

Biography
Paras Gajurel was born on 11 January 1957 in Gorkha, central Nepal. He was born to a middle-class Hindu family, and he inherited his father's farm when he died in 1975. Gajurel bought other farms and became the owner of the Gajurel Agricultural Conglomerate, making serious money from the farming industry. He was marked for death by the Communist Party of Nepal (UCPN) due to his wealth and his greed, and on 27 September 1997 he was gunned down in the capital of Kathmandu in a drive-by shooting.